Govan Hinds

The logo, which was made up of hundreds of vibrant flowers, and was a tribute to its past series since its debut in July 2000.

The titles had a carnival theme which included spinning cogs, a gramophone which was exploding with flower petals, a ventriloquist dummy and a spinning Big Brother clock which was striking 11.

There was also cutaway messages during the titles, spelling out 'Welcome' 'To The' 'Mad House'.

The theme for this series was carnival.

Like always, housemates entered the House with no contact with the outside world.

Each week, the housemates took part in a compulsory task that determined the amount of money they were allocated to spend on their shopping; if they passed, they received a luxury budget and they were allocated a basic budget if they failed.

Housemates nominated two housemates for eviction every week.

In a new nominations twist revealed on Day 6, the nominated housemates were allowed to escape nominations with a weekly Save and Replace challenge.

The Save and Replace winner is exempt from nominations, however, they must replace themselves with another housemate of their choice for eviction.

This nominations twist that was held every week is similar to the Power of Veto from the American version of Big Brother.

The eviction format saw a number of changes, at the beginning of an eviction show, a round-up of the weeks events - featuring newspaper headlines - would be shown to viewers.

This series saw the return of McCall announcing the eviction from outside the house with the housemates hearing the live audience cheering, booing and chanting.

Occasionally, If more than two housemates faced eviction, McCall would announce which nominee(s) will be safe, however, this was only done a handful of times (Week 1, 2 and 7), three housemates face eviction in Weeks 3, 5 and 8, and four in Week 9, where no announcement of who was safe was announced, in Week 10 eight housemates faced the public vote which would lead to the first ever quadruple eviction, out of the four times McCall spoke to the house she would announce one nominee who was safe and then announce the evictee who would have to leave immediately.

The eviction announcements were made in no particular order (see Nominations Table), John James received the highest number of eviction votes, followed by Corin, Sam and Steve, however the order they left the house was Steve, Corin, Sam and John James.

Another change to the eviction format was the housemates 'best bits getting shown before the interview rather than at the end as in every other series - although the previous Celebrity series adopted this format.

The panel format used in the eviction interviews the previous year did not return, instead McCall interviewed the evictee in a one-on-one format, however, for the first time ever, viewers could call in with questions to ask the evictee.

Also, evictees were shown goodbye messages the housemates recorded for them in the event of their departure, similar to the format used in the American version of the show.

The new eviction format continued for Ultimate Big Brother, the only difference that all interviews were performed outside of the studio.

Big Brother 2010, also known as Big Brother 11, was the eleventh series of the British reality television series Big Brother, and the final series of the show to be broadcast by Channel 4.

The show followed twenty-one contestants, known as housemates, who were isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom built House.

Each week, one or more of the housemates were evicted by a public vote.

The last remaining housemate, Josie Gibson, was declared the winner, winning a cash prize of £100,000 and a place as a Housemate on Ultimate Big Brother, an All Star edition of Big Brother which began immediately after the conclusion of Big Brother 2010

It launched on 9 June 2010 and ended on 24 August 2010, lasting 77 days - the shortest run since the fifth series in 2004.

Davina McCall returned as presenter for the eleventh and final time.

Fourteen housemates entered on launch night, with seven additional housemate being introduced in later weeks.

The series was watched by an average of 3 million viewers.

Open auditions for the series took place in Manchester on 15–16 January 2010, in Dublin on 19 January 2010, in Cardiff on 23 January 2010, in Glasgow on 30 January 2010 and in London on 6–7 February 2010.

On 10 May, the Celebrity Big Brother 7 website was replaced with a Big Brother 11 mini-site updated with 23 pictures of Big Brother 11's new trailer.

The trailer was aired on Channel 4 during The Million Pound Drop Live on 24 May.

The trailer featured 30 ex-housemates from the past 10 series of Big Brother attending a funeral of the Diary Room Chair, with show narrator Marcus Bentley as the priest.

On 14 May, it was announced on the Big Brother mini-site that Emma Willis would be joining the current presenter of Big Brother's Little Brother, George Lamb, as co-host for the series.

On 17 May, break bumpers featuring the falling flowers began showing on Channel 4.

To celebrate the final series of Big Brother, Davina McCall hosted a special programme, Big Brother's Big Awards Show, where the British public has bestowed accolades upon memorable housemates from the previous series.

This special was aired on E4 on 22 May.

A further programme, Big Brother Exposed: The Inside Story, was aired on 28 May on E4, brought viewers highlights of the past ten series.

On 21 May, Channel 4 unveiled the floral-themed eye logo for this summer's series of Big Brother.

Located in the bathroom was a chest of drawers created from the Tree of Temptation that was present in the 2010 celebrity series.

The Tree of Temptation gave housemates secret tasks to gain rewards for themselves or other housemates.

The first task occurred on Day 1 when Mario was performing his "Impossible Task".

Following Channel 4's decision in 2009 not to renew their contract with Endemol to show the series, Channel 5 bought the rights to Big Brother in the United Kingdom, where it was broadcast from 18 August 2011.